Thursday, May 17, 2012

Still the begining I want to tell you that I have the pleasure to be invited by Deena Kelly, GlogsterEDU director, and I received a phone from Justin Landis to take part like a GlogsterEDU Ambassador http://dumacornellucian.edu.glogster.com/ to Intel Teach Essentials organized in Prague between 22 - 25 may 2012 . I must told you that I tried in last 3 years many times to make a Intel Teach Course here in Romania , but I find only online on http://iteach.ro/ . I have the surprise to find that our trainer is Ollie Bray, that I meet on the elearning platform of Smile Project managed by European Schoolnet who is National Adviser for Emerging Technologies in Learning at LTScotland .

Also we have a brilliant Intel Education trainer from UK Ruth Merrett who was in our project team in the right ( Marta and Mihaela ) and help us in our unit project and I learn from her how to make a succesful project and a lot of things .

Ollie present us the Intel Teach Essentials in a marvelous mode on next 8 Modules :

- Module 1 - Teaching with projects

- Module 2 - Planning your teaching Unit

- Module 3- Making Connections

- Module 4 - Creating Samples of Learning

- Module 5 - Assessing Student Projects

- Module 6 - Planning for students succes

- Module 7 - Facilitating with Technology

- Module 8 - Showcasing Unit Portfolios

In the first day of the training I discover that all the GlogsterEDU founders are from Czech Republic : Patrick Pepsi, Tomas PlojharRoman Smola, Martin Santorcl and Stanislav Sramek and they present us GlogsterEDU features coming next school year and also all were invited to propose new features for the best XXI Century Education tool . Some features are the next to have a good management from your public dashboard .

An organization established by MIT and Harvard that will develop an open-source technology platform to deliver online courses. EdX will support Harvard and MIT faculty in conducting research on teaching and learning on campus through tools that enrich classroom and laboratory experiences. At the same time, edX also will reach learners around the world through online course materials. The edX website will begin by hosting MITx and Harvardx content, with the goal of adding content from other universities interested in joining the platform. edX will also support the Harvard and MIT faculty in conducting research on teaching and learning.

Who will lead edX?

EdX is a priority for the leadership of both Harvard and MIT, and it will be governed by a board made up of key leaders from both institutions, appointed by each university’s president. MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Anant Agarwal will be the initial President of edX and will report to the board.

What technology will edX use?

An open-source online learning platform that will feature teaching designed specifically for the web. Features will include: self-paced learning, online discussion groups, wiki-based collaborative learning, assessment of learning as a student progresses through a course, and online laboratories. The platform will also serve as a laboratory from which data will be gathered to better understand how students learn. Because it is open source, the platform will be continuously improved here http://www.edxonline.org/index.html